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| Personal background |
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I'm one of those rare breeds of Seattlite who actually decided to stay in the
city rather than be "from" somewhere. I'm going on 33, and my occupations
range from freelance professional organizer to writer (it really depends on the
day).
Briefly in high school and through late college on, I've been surrounded by
geeks. I'm not actually a geek, myself. I'm barely geek-lite. But I'm
geek-friendly, a geek-groupie, a ... geek-hag? Could be. They seem to find my
company pleasant enough, and I've even got my own live-in geek, now. I'm also
a science fiction fan of sorts (slowly getting into fantasy books), and was
left to piece together my understanding of the world on my own -- my parents
never tried to push a religion on me. Instead, they simply insisted that I
respect their upbringings.
At present, my hobbies are online journaling, reading, interior decorating,
armchair psychology, comics, stuffed animals and web whacking (I orginally learned
back in '93 via a combinaton of swiping other people's code and hand-writing my
own).
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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At some point, the concept of running SETI@home was a big deal among my gaggle
of geeks. However, it'd be a long time before I'd have a machine that wouldn't
choke at the idea.
The idea of running SETI@home seems like a no-brainer, really. Most of the
geeks I knew mouruned the fate of the space program and found it highly
unlikely that we're alone here. I've certainly heard and experienced far
weirder.
Also, I guess that running SETI@home simply helps me to feel more networthy. I
admit that I mainly have a "why the heck not"? attitude about the idea, but ...
being left to develop my own ideas about the way the universe works has left
the question of extraterrial life quite open for me.
Shortform: I don't know if there's life out there. I doubt that I'll know in
my lifetime. For me, the point is to help in finding out. |
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